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City of Salford
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The City of Salford is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. The city has a population of 218,000, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton, the current city boundaries were set as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, and cover an amalgamation of five former local government districts. It is bounded on the south east by the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with the city of Manchester and by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south, the metropolitan boroughs of Wigan, Bolton and Bury lie to the west, northwest and north respectively. Some parts of the city, which lies directly west of Manchester, are highly industrialised and densely populated and this is because the western half of the city stretches across an ancient peat bog known as Chat Moss. Salford has a history of human activity stretching back to the Neolithic age, there are over 250 listed buildings in the city, including Salford Cathedral, and three Scheduled Ancient Monuments. With the Industrial Revolution, Salford and its neighbours grew along with its textile industry, the former County Borough of Salford was granted city status in 1926. The city and its industries experienced decline throughout much of the 20th century, since the 1990s, parts of Salford have undergone regeneration, especially Salford Quays, home of BBC North and Granada Television, and the area around the University of Salford. Salford Red Devils are a rugby league club in Super League. Although the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford was a 20th-century creation, Neolithic flint arrow-heads and tools, and evidence of Bronze Age activity has been discovered in Salford. In 1142, a cell and priory dedicated to St. Leonard was established in Kersal, Salford became a free borough in about 1230, when it was granted a charter as a free borough by the Earl Ranulph of Chester. The cell in Kersal was sold in 1540 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a 16th-century manor house, called Kersal Cell, was built on the site of the priory. In the English Civil War between King Charles I and parliament, Salford was Royalist, during the Industrial Revolution, Salford grew as a result of the textile industry. Although Salford experienced an increase in population, it was overshadowed by the dominance of Manchester, on 15 September 1830, Eccles was site of the worlds first railway accident. Although Huskisson was taken to Eccles for treatment he died of his injuries, in 1894, the Manchester Ship Canal was opened, running from the River Mersey to Salford Quays, when it was complete it was the largest navigation canal in the world. Along the route of the canal, it was necessary to create an aqueduct carrying the Bridgewater Canal over the Ship Canal, the Barton Swing Aqueduct, designed by Sir Edward Leader Williams, is 100 metres long and weighs 1,450 metric tons. At the start of the 20th century, Salford began to due to competition from outside the UK. A survey in 1931 concluded that parts of Salford were amongst the worst slums in the country, Salford was granted city status in 1926. During World War II, Salford Docks were regularly bombed, in the decades following the Second World War there was a significant economic and population decline in Salford

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MediaCityUK
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MediaCityUK is a 200-acre mixed-use property development site on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford and Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The project is being developed by Peel Media, and its tenants are media organisations. The land occupied by the development was part of the Port of Manchester and Manchester Docks, the BBC signalled its intention to move jobs to Manchester in 2004, and the Salford Quays site was chosen in 2006. The Peel Group was granted planning permission to develop the site in 2007, based in Quay House, the principal tenant is the BBC, whose move marks a large-scale decentralisation from London. The Studios on Broadway houses seven high-definition studios, claimed to be the largest such facility in Europe, MediaCityUK is to be developed in two phases. The 36-acre first phase was completed in 2011, and the second is dependent on its success, Metrolink, Greater Manchesters light-rail system, was extended to MediaCityUK with the opening of the MediaCityUK tram stop on 20 September 2010 and further extensions are planned. Road access was improved by the construction of Broadway Link Road, the Quays development includes The Lowry Arts Centre and the Imperial War Museum North. A total of 200 acres of land was earmarked for the development of MediaCityUK, the first phase of its development was primarily focused on a 36-acre site at Pier 9 on Salford Quays. In 2010 it was announced that the ITV production centre would be built on Trafford Wharf in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford. In 2003 reports emerged that, as part of the plans for the renewal of its Royal Charter, early discussions involved a plan where the BBC would move to a new media village proposed by Granada Television at its Bonded Warehouse site at Granada Studios in the city. Proposals to relocate 1,800 jobs to Manchester were unveiled by BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, the BBC justified the move as its spending per head was low in northern England where it had low approval ratings and its facilities at New Broadcasting House in Manchester needed replacing. The site at Salford Quays was chosen in June 2006 and the north was conditional on a satisfactory licence fee settlement from the government. In the same month the BBC Trust approved moving five London-based departments to the development, the departments to be moved were Sport, Childrens, Learning, Future Media and Technology and Radio Five Live. Construction started in 2007 with the owner, Peel Group as developer. The media facilities opened in stages from 2007, the first facility being the Pie Factory, which was located in a refurbished bakery. It featured three sound stages suitable for drama productions and commercials. In January 2011 Peel Media received planning permission to convert on-site offices used by Bovis Lend Lease during the construction of the first phase into the Greenhouse, the first trial show took place in November 2010 in Studio HQ2. The half-hour test show featured a power failure and a fire drill, the first programme filmed at MediaCityUK was Dont Scare the Hare in February 2011, and the first to transfer was A Question of Sport, the same month

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Ordsall Hall
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Ordsall Hall is a historic house and a former stately home in Ordsall, an area of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It dates back more than 750 years, although the oldest surviving parts of the present hall were built in the 15th century. The most important period of Ordsall Halls life was as the seat of the Radclyffe family. Since its sale by the Radclyffes in 1662 the hall has been put to uses, a working mens club, a school for clergy. The house was bought by the old Salford Council in 1959 and opened to the public in 1972, as a period house, the hall is a Grade I listed building. It was closed to the public between 2009 and 2011 during refurbishment, and reopened in May 2011. Ordsall Hall is a formerly moated Tudor mansion, the oldest parts of which were built during the 15th century, david de Hulton is recorded as the owner of the original hall, in 1251. The manor of Ordsall came into the possession of the Radclyffe family in about 1335, the manor was described in 1351 as a messuage,120 acres of land,12 acres of meadow and 12 acres of wood. During the 1340s Sir John Radclyffe campaigned with Edward III in France, distinguishing himself at the battles of Caen, Crècy and Calais. As a reward for his service, the king allowed Sir John to take some Flemish weavers back to his Ordsall estate, where he built cottages for them to live in. English weaving skills at that time were poor, and textiles from Manchester were considered to be of poor quality. They also started up a weaving industry, the foundation for Manchesters later cotton industry. The Dutch humanist and theologian Erasmus stayed at Ordsall Hall in 1499, the original cruck hall was replaced by the present Great Hall in 1512, after Sir Alexander Radclyffe was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire. The hall is typical of built at that time in the northwest of England, although it is one of the largest. The hall has a roof structure, as in the similar Rufford Old Hall. There is a later small room above the large oriel bay. The house was built at 90° to the building, to which it was later joined. During the Civil War Sir Alexander, as a Royalist, was imprisoned and suffered financial hardship, reduced means eventually forced his heir, John Radclyffe, into selling the hall to Colonel John Birch in 1662, thus ending more than 300 years of his familys occupation

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St Augustine's Church, Pendlebury
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St. Augustine’s Church is an active Anglican church in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, England. Dedicated to St Augustine, it is part of the benefice of Swinton and Pendlebury along with St Peters Church in Swinton, the church is in the Eccles deanery, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester. The church was granted Grade II* listed status in 1966 but has since upgraded to Grade I. Called the Miners Cathedral, due to its almost cathedralesque stature, in the heart of a one time coal-mining community, the church is situated on Bolton Road and has a connected primary school. Manchester banker, Edward Stanley Heywood of Heywoods Bank commissioned G. F. Bodley to design the church in March 1870 and its foundation stone was laid in the following September and it was consecrated in May 1874. Heywood paid for its construction, decoration and furnishings, the church was constructed to the design of Bodley and Thomas Garner between 1871 and 1874. The cost, £3,300 was largely borne by Heywood, Bodley designed a bell tower for the south-east side, higher than the main roof, but it was not built. The church is built of red brick and has clay tile roof and it was inspired by the Gothic cathedrals in Albi and Toulouse in France. Its nave and chancel occupy ten bays under a continuous roof, the church has a door at the west end, a porch on the south side and vestry on the north. The bays are separated by shallow weathered buttresses that terminate in triangular gablets above the parapet which has pierced quatrefoils above the chancel. The nave and chancel are differentiated by their windows, the nave has three-light windows below blank arches while the chancel has four-light windows with reticulated tracery. The east window between angled buttresses topped by crocketted pinnacles has seven lights decorated with flowing reticulated tracery, the west window has five lights. The church has large buttresses that are pierced by passage aisles. The barrel roof is painted above chancel. An elaborately carved rood screen separates the nave from the chancel, the reredos is decorated with painted figures. The organ case, rood screen and sedilia were designed by Bodley, the ornate font on a carved stone is raised from the ground by several steps, and above it is a carved wooden hood suspended from the walls. The first vicar, Doctor Alfred Dewes, was vicar from the consecration of the church in 1874 until his death in 1911 and he worked unceasingly throughout the smallpox and cholera outbreaks, helping the poor and afflicted. Both vicar and church were the point for the mourning following the Clifton Hall Colliery explosion on 18 June 1885, in which 178 men

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Manchester Metrolink
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Metrolink is a tram/light rail system in Greater Manchester, England. The system is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester and operated and maintained under contract by RATP Group, in 2015–16,34.3 million passenger journeys were made on the system. The network consists of seven lines which radiate from Manchester city centre to termini at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, East Didsbury, Eccles, Manchester Airport, Metrolink has 93 stops along 57 miles of standard-gauge track making it the largest light rail system in the United Kingdom. It consists of a mixture of track shared with other traffic, reserved track sections, segregated from other traffic. It is operated by a fleet of Bombardier Flexity Swift M5000s, a light rail system for Greater Manchester emerged from the failure of the 1970s Picc-Vic tunnel scheme to obtain central government funding. A light-rail scheme was proposed in 1982 as the least expensive rail-based transport solution for Manchester city centre, construction work on the Trafford Park Line extension from Pomona to the Trafford Centre commenced in early 2017 with an estimated operational date of 2020/21. Furthermore, TfGM have endorsed more speculative expansion proposals for new lines to Stockport, a loop around Wythenshawe, Manchesters first tram age began in 1877 with the first horse-drawn trams of Manchester Suburban Tramways Company. Electric traction was introduced in 1901, and the municipal Manchester Corporation Tramways expanded across the city, by 1930, Manchesters tram network had grown to 163 miles route miles, making it the third largest tram system in the United Kingdom. After World War II, electric trolleybuses and motor buses began to be favoured by local authorities as a cheaper transport alternative, trolleybuses were withdrawn from service in 1966. The central commercial district had no links, and over the years. In the 1960s, transport design studies were undertaken to address the problems of increasing traffic congestion, a number of urban public transport schemes were evaluated for Manchester, including several types of monorail systems and metro-style systems. While the monorail schemes were all abandoned, a scheme to create a tunnel link gained momentum. SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive — the body formed in 1969 to improve public transport for Manchester and this was a proposal to link Piccadilly and Victoria stations via a tunnel under the city centre and enable train services to run across the Manchester conurbation. Inter-station links were provided by the Centreline shuttle bus service for many years, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, the successor to SELNEC, continued to examine possible rail link solutions. A Rail Study Group, composed of officials from British Rail, GMC, to promote the scheme, GMPTE held a public proof of concept demonstration in March 1987 using a Docklands Light Railway P86 train on a freight-only line adjacent to Debdale Park. The Project Light Rail proposals were presented to the UK Government for taxpayer funding, following route revisions in 1984 and 1987, additional taxpayer funding came from the European Regional Development Fund and bank lending. Parliamentary authority to proceed with Phase 1 construction was obtained with two Acts of Parliament – the Greater Manchester Act 1988 and Greater Manchester Act 1988. Tracks were laid down along a 1. 9-mile route from Victoria station, via Market Street to the G-Mex and this route is now known as the First City Crossing, and it was built with network expansion in mind

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City Airport & Heliport
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City Airport is a general aviation airport in the Barton-upon-Irwell area of Eccles, in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Formerly known as Barton Aerodrome and City Airport Manchester, it is known by the UK Civil Aviation Authority as Manchester/Barton and it is situated 5 nautical miles west of Manchester and was the United Kingdoms first purpose-built municipal airport. Featuring four grass runways, it is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the UK, the airfield operates seven days a week, from 9 am until 8pm or sunset for fixed-wing aircraft. Commercial, private, military, police and air ambulance helicopters can operate during the hours of darkness by arrangement, the airport is also used as a refuelling stop for light aircraft and helicopters. However, it lies on the edge of Chat Moss and the aircraft movements area suffers from periods of waterlogging, restricting fixed wing operations at those times. Recent works to improve drainage on the airfield have seen success in reducing the number of closures. Manchester Barton Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee. The aerodrome is not licensed for night use, autumn 1928, Construction of Manchesters new municipal aerodrome at Barton, near Eccles started, to replace the temporary Manchester Aerodrome. January 1930, The grass airfield and large hangar were completed, the first passenger charter flight occurred. Barton was managed until 1933 by Northern Air Lines, who based several Avro 504s and other types for training, club and charter flights. This service was timed to fly north from Croydon in the evening and to return next morning, in order to provide connections to. The tower is operational and is believed to be the oldest in Europe still in use for its original purpose. Croydon-based Railway Air Services commenced a Croydon-Barton-Belfast-Glasgow route, spring 1935, Linking services to Liverpool, Blackpool and the Isle of Man were introduced. Other smaller airlines, including Isle of Man Air Services operated services from Barton, june 1938, All schedules were transferred to the newly completed larger Ringway Airport. World War II, Barton was requisitioned and used for aircraft repair and overhaul, carried out by civilian firms including Air Taxis Ltd. Aircraft types involved were Avro Ansons, Dominies, Fairey Battles, Fairey Fulmars, Hawker Hurricanes and F4U Corsairs, over 700 Percival Proctor training and communications aircraft were assembled and tested at Barton by F. Hills & Sons of Trafford Park. There is a concrete air raid bunker still at the site hidden under overgrown vegetation near the main road. 1940–1942, The sole wartime scheduled air service from Eire to the UK used Barton from 1940 to 1942, operated from Dublin by Aer Lingus, Aer Lingus often used their Douglas DC-3, the heaviest airliner type to serve Barton on a timetabled route

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Bus transport in the United Kingdom
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Buses play a major role in the public transport of the United Kingdom, as well as seeing extensive private use. Bus transport is heavily subsidised, especially in London, in 2014/15, there were 5.2 billion bus journeys in the UK,2.4 billion of which were in London. The first omnibus service in the United Kingdom was started by John Greenwood between Pendleton and Manchester in 1824, Stagecoach services, sometimes over short distances, had existed for many years. Greenwoods innovation was to offer a service which did not require booking in advance, Greenwood did not use the term omnibus, which was first used in France in 1826. In 1829 George Shillibeer started the first omnibus service in London, over the next few decades, horse bus services developed in London, Manchester and other cities. They became bigger, and double deck buses were introduced in the 1850s, the growth of suburban railways, and later horse trams and electric trams changed the patterns of horse bus services, but horse buses continued to flourish. By 1900 there were 3,676 horse buses in London, there were experiments with steam buses in the 1830s, but harsh legislation in 1861 virtually eliminated mechanically propelled road transport from Britain until the law was changed in 1896. From 1897 various experimental motor bus services were operated with petrol-driven vehicles, in 1903 motor bus services were started in Eastbourne, and in the same year a motor bus service was started between Helston and The Lizard by the Great Western Railway. Motor bus services grew quickly, and soon eclipsed the horse buses, early operators were the tramway companies, e. g. the British Electric Traction Company, and the railway companies. By the time of the First World War, BET had begun to emerge as a national force, by the time of the First World War, the LGOC had achieved dominance in London, and its two major competitors, Tilling and National looked elsewhere for expansion. After the war, many bus companies were started by ex-servicemen who had learnt mechanics in the Army, the 1920s were an era of intense competition, but BET, Tilling and National gradually acquired more companies. Tilling had shares in BET as well as competing with BET, at the end of the 1920s the railways mostly ceased direct bus operation, but acquired interests in many bus companies. The National transferred its operations to three companies jointly owned with the railways, Eastern National, Southern National and Western National, the Road Traffic Act 1930 ended the period of competition and introduced a new system of regulation of bus services. One effect was to many of the smaller operators. In 1931, Tilling acquired control of the National, in England outside London and towns where municipalities ran their own buses, the industry was dominated by Tilling, BET and their joint company TBAT. In Scotland, Scottish Motor Traction came to be the dominant force, in 1942, TBAT was wound up, and its companies transferred to Tilling. The post-war Labour government embarked on a programme of nationalisation of transport, under the Transport Act 1947, the British Transport Commission acquired the bus services of Thomas Tilling, Scottish Motor Traction and the large independent Red & White. By the nationalisation of the railways, the BTC also acquired interests in many of BETs bus companies, in 1962 the BTCs bus companies were transferred to the Transport Holding Company

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Patricroft railway station
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Patricroft railway station is in the Patricroft district of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. The station is on Green Lane, just north of the junction with Cromwell Road and it is situated 5 miles west of Manchester Victoria on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which was electrified in stages between 2013 and 2015. It is the closest railway station to the Worsley village area, the station is situated on the worlds first inter-city passenger railway, between Liverpool and Manchester, and is also located close to the worlds first commercial canal. The station used to have an adjacent engine shed, Patricroft MPD, the engine shed opened in 1884 and closed in 1968. The majority of the buildings were demolished in the 1980s. The station is unstaffed and has no permanent buildings or ticket facilities - passengers must buy their tickets prior to travel or on the train, train running information is provided by telephone and timetable posters. The platforms are linked by subway, but neither have step-free access as the subway has stairs from the entrance to platform level. Monday to Saturdays there is generally an hourly service from the station to Manchester Victoria eastbound and these are operated by the Northern Electrics Class 319 on a stopping service between Liverpool and Manchester

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Salford Central railway station
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Salford Central railway station in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, is just across the River Irwell from Manchester city centre, close to Spinningfields and Deansgate. It is served by trains to and from Manchester Victoria, towards Rochdale, the station was removed from the Manchester station group in 1989. The railway station opened on 29 May 1838 as a terminus on the Manchester, in 1843, a connection to Manchester Victoria was built, carried on iron columns. The roof suffered from corrosion caused by the emissions of locomotives passing through the station. Between April 1858 and August 1865, to avoid confusion with Salford, to avoid confusion with the newly built Salford Crescent station, in 1988 it was renamed Salford Central. For many years the station was served at times only. Manchester city centre is either on foot or by a short ride on public transport. Salford is also served by Salford Crescent railway station, close to the University of Salford and Salford Precinct, the £700m Middlewood Locks development will be served by Salford Central. The ticket office is manned from 06,25 to 19,35, the ticket hall is connected to the platforms via inclined ramps that are suitable for mobility-impaired users. There are shelters and snack/drink vending machines at platform level, along with posters, digital display screens. The station has a frequent service on weekdays and Saturdays, with all trains to, destinations served include Southport and Kirkby and Blackpool North, Wigan Wallgate and Clitheroe westbound and Blackburn, Stalybridge and Huddersfield eastbound. The station is closed on Sundays, a Network Rail report suggests building platforms on the line to Liverpool, the lines of which run through the station but are not provided with platforms. This scheme has since adopted by Transport for Greater Manchester. This will see three additional platforms built, at a cost of £20.5 million and will allow Liverpool, train times and station information for Salford Central railway station from National Rail

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Kersal
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Kersal is an area of the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England,2.5 miles northwest of Manchester city centre. Historically in Lancashire, Kersal has the second oldest building in Salford, Kersal Cell, Kersal Dale Country Park has been designated as a Local Nature Reserve and Kersal Moor as a Site of Biological Importance and Local Nature Reserve. Kersal has been known as Kereshale, Kershal, Kereshole. The name incorporates the Old English word halh, meaning a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, Kersal indicates that this was land where cress grew. In 1142, Kereshale was given to the Priory of Lenton, an order of Cluniac monks, on the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540 Henry VIII sold the priory and its lands to one Baldwin Willoughby. It was sold eight years later to Ralph Kenyon, who was acting on behalf of himself, James Chetham of Crumpsall, the Kenyon third was sold about the year 1660 to the Byroms of Manchester, whose line terminated on the death of Miss Eleanora Atherton in 1870. All the land eventually descended to, or was bought by, the most famous resident of Kersal Cell was John Byrom. It is said that he wrote the hymn Christians Awake there, in the 17th century, the Kersal Moor races were the great event of the year. They usually took place around Whit Week when large numbers of people turned the area into a giant fairground for several days, the moor was also used for nude male races, allowing females to study the form before choosing their mates. Indeed, in the 18th century, Roger Aytoun, known as Spanking Roger, later a hero of the Siege of Gibraltar, acquired Hough Hall in Moston and it was also the site of one of the first golf courses to be built outside Scotland. Kersal Links opened in 1818, and was the oldest golf course between the Thames and the Tweed until it closed in 1960, in 1961 the Members Stand at the Castle Irwell Racecourse was opened and contained the worlds first executive boxes. The architect for the racecourse, Ernest Atherden, showed this to the directors of Manchester United who opened their first executive box in 1965, the number of public houses was severely restricted and then, only beer houses that didnt sell spirits were allowed. Singleton Road and Moor Lane were the roads connecting Bury Old Road and Bolton Road. When Bury New Road was built in 1831 a gate or bar was erected, a toll house was erected on Bury New Road with a bay window projecting out so that the toll collector had a clear view of the road. By 1848 the local authority had taken over the road, the tolls were abolished and this was the only shop in an area where the landowners restrictive covenants prevented commercial development. The exterior of the house remains largely unchanged to this day, the Toll House is now a Grade II listed building. In the 1930s a large estate was built to the east of Littleton Road. Twelve high-rise tower blocks, known as Kersal flats, were constructed for Salford Council in the 1960s, eight of these were demolished in 1990

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National Rail
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The name and the accompanying double arrow symbol are the intellectual property of the Secretary of State for Transport. The National Rail logo was introduced by ATOC in 1999, and was used on the Great Britain public timetable for the first time in the edition valid from 26 September in that year. Rules for its use are set out in the Corporate Identity Style Guidelines published by the Rail Delivery Group, the NR title is sometimes described as a brand. As it was used by British Rail, the operator before franchising, its use also maintains continuity and public familiarity. National Rail should not be confused with Network Rail, the two networks are generally coincident where passenger services are run. Most major Network Rail lines carry traffic and some lines are freight only. About twenty privately owned operating companies, each franchised for a defined term by government. The Rail Delivery Group is the association representing the TOCs and provides core services. It also runs Rail Settlement Plan, which allocates ticket revenue to the various TOCs, and Rail Staff Travel and it does not compile the national timetable, which is the joint responsibility of the Office of Rail Regulation and Network Rail. Since the privatisation of British Rail there is no longer a single approach to design on railways in Great Britain, the look and feel of signage, liveries and marketing material is largely the preserve of the individual TOCs. However, National Rail continues to use BRs famous double-arrow symbol and it has been incorporated in the National Rail logotype and is displayed on tickets, the National Rail website and other publicity. The trademark rights to the arrow symbol remain state-owned, being vested in the Secretary of State for Transport. The double arrow was already prescribed for indicating a railway station, the lettering used in the National Rail logotype is a modified form of the typeface Sassoon Bold. It is a misconception that Rail Alphabet was also used for printed material. The British Rail typefaces of choice from 1965 were Helvetica and Univers, TOCs may use what they like, examples include Futura, Helvetica, Frutiger, Bliss, and a modified version of Precious by London Midland. Several conurbations have their own metro or tram systems, most of which are not part of National Rail, LO now also possesses some infrastructure in its own right, following the reopening of the former East London line of London Underground as the East London Railway of LO. Heathrow Express and Eurostar are also not part of the National Rail network despite sharing of stations, northern Ireland Railways were never part of British Rail, which was always confined to Great Britain, and therefore are not part of the National Rail network. National Rail services have a common ticketing structure inherited from British Rail, through tickets are available between any pair of stations on the network, and can be bought from any station ticket office

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Salford Shopping Centre
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Salford Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Pendleton,2 miles from Manchester city centre. Built in 1972, the centre has been the subject of redevelopment projects undertaken by Salford City Council. The centre has 81 indoor shopping units and a market complex which sells a wide range of goods. Outside the indoor structure is a KFC, Post Office and Aldi store, opposite the main site stands a large Tesco store which opened in November 2012 as part of a larger regeneration plan of the Pendleton area. In 1952 the Ellor Street development plan was announced and was to be chaired by councillor Albert Jones, the plan proposed the demolition of 6,000 terraced houses over a 300-acre site in the Hanky Park and Ellor Street areas of Pendleton. In 1962 the project, which was to cost £5.25 million began, the original proposal was to build a site which consisted of 260 shops, a market, spaces for 2,000 cars, plus a hotel, offices and flats. This prompted a local newspaper to run the story with the headline It will be the finest in Europe, construction of the shopping centre and surrounding areas continued and on 21 May 1970 the new Salford Market officially opened. From 1971 onwards new shops inside the precinct itself began to open, however, due to a lack of funds and a political scandal which saw chairman Albert Jones jailed for eight months construction of Salford Precinct was halted. The site had only 95 shop units compared to the proposed 260, in 1991 the building was refurbished at a cost of £4 million, this included the installation of roofs across various walkways, making large swathes of the centre undercover. The shopping centre which at the time was known as Salford Precinct was renamed Salford Shopping City, in 2000 Salford Shopping City was eventually sold to a private company for £10 million in an effort to cut the councils deficit. It was then sold in March 2010 to Praxis Holdings for £40 million. Images of rioters breaking into several outlets on Hankinson Way including the Money Shop, however Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed these claims, stating that the rioters were merely Opportunistic Thugs in a statement to the House of Commons. In October 2010 Salford City Council gave the go ahead for a new £45 million Tesco superstore to be built on Pendleton way opposite the site of Salford Shopping City. The proposal was met with opposition from both Salford Estates who had purchased the site for £40 million in March 2010 and local residents. Gareth Edmunds of Salford Estates claimed that traders cant compete with a Tesco of that size, the store opened on the 15th November 2012. Tesco claimed the 24-hour store would create over 600 new jobs with at least half of going to locally unemployed people. Salford Estates have promised to continue to develop the site, in late 2012 the original market which had stood since 1970 was removed and replaced with 3 units. One of the units is a 15,900 sq ft supermarket to be occupied by Aldi opened in January 2014, two further 5,000 sq ft non-food units have not yet been pre-let